For WebGoat we use milestone releases first before we release the official version, we use v8.0.0.M3 while tagging
and 8.0.0.M3 in the pom.xml. When we create the final release we remove the milestone release and use
v8.0.0 and 8.0.0 in the pom.xml
At the moment we use Gitflow, for a release you create a new release branch and take the following steps:
git checkout develop
git flow release start <version>
mvn versions:set <<version>
git commit -am "New release, updating pom.xml"
git flow release publish
<<Make changes if necessary>>
git flow release finish <version>
git push origin develop
git push origin master
git push --tags
Now Travis takes over and will create the release in Github and on Docker Hub.
NOTE: the mvn versions:set command above is just there to make sure the master branch contains the latest version